Shift work by its nature is tedious, repetitive, and mind-numbing. Add to that the pain of rotating to night shifts every 4 months and the conditions for a soul-sapping corporate cog job are created. Indeed there are opportunities to move off of shift. But somehow being a process owner working 50-60 hours/week and being on-call 24/7 does not sound much better. The shift crews also have many stars and stripes good-old boy types that somehow gained the title of 'engineer' without a real engineering degree. If you wish to be surrounded by Trump supporters with myopic perspectives of the world, shift might be for you.
The work environment became hostile in Oct-Nov 2018 when the performance-based 'soft-layoffs' occurred. I performed well and benefitted, but many folks who performed equally as well were rated lower and paid the price; I cannot help but feel some level of guilt even if these things are beyond my control. The consequences of this rating system will eventually take its toll on this company. Some areas are even identifying and holding onto their '1s and 2s' now so they can ax them come performance review time. How on earth is this indicative of the 'tenacious' and 'people-based' culture that leadership continues to extoll? I think now is a good time to GTFO of Micron.
